Captain Marvel Cupcakes!
Author: Pam
Recipe type: Cupcakes
Cuisine: Captain Marvel Cupcakes
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Serves: 6
- Fondant art piece ingredients:
- 1 tube of red fondant
- 1 tube of blue fondant
- 1 tube of yellow cookie icing
- 1 medium circle cookie cutter
- 1 piping bag with a number 2 tip
- Cupcake ingredients:
- 1 box of White cake mix
- Water, vegetable oil, and eggs (back of cake mix box)
- Gel food coloring: red, golden yellow, and sky blue
- Frosting Ingredients
- 2 C unsalted sweet cream butter (softened)
- 5 C powder sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 6-10 TBSP heavy whipping cream
- Sky blue, red, and golden yellow gel food coloring
- 1 disposable piping bag with a star piping tip
- 3 mixing bowls
- Fondant art directions:
- Directions:
- Using a cutting board, lightly sprinkle some powdered sugar onto the board and roll out the red fondant to ⅛ inch thickness
- Cut out 6 circles
- Repeat the steps with the blue fondant
- Take a fondant cutter and cut a triangle in the middle of the circle
- Separate the two parts and place the top of the red circle into the opening of the bottom of the blue circle Like shown in the in process image
- Lightly wet your finger with water and run it along the line where the two colors meet. The water will act as a glue
- Allow to dry for 1 hour
- Squeeze the yellow cookie icing into the piping bag
- Pipe out the star for Captain Marvels logo
- Allow to dry for 2 hours
- Cupcake Directions:
- Heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Prepare cupcake pan with liners.
- Make cake mix as directed on box for cupcakes.
- Divide the prepared cake mix into 3 small bowls.
- Add 5 drops of the red gel food coloring in the first bowl.
- Stir to mix well.
- Add 4 drops of the sky blue gel food coloring in the second bowl.
- Stir to mix well.
- Add 3 drops of golden yellow gel food coloring in the third bowl.
- Stir to mix well.
- Add a teaspoon in each cupcake liner of the colored cake mix.
- Alternate spoonfuls of the colored cake mix in each of the cupcake liners.
- Fill cupcake liners ¾'s full.
- Bake in the oven for 22 minutes
- Remove from oven and set aside to cool completely.
- Frosting directions:
- Using a stand mixer, combine all ingredients and mix on medium speed.
- Mix until you see stiffed peaks in your frosting.
- Once the frosting is made, divide equally into 3 bowls
- Add 5 drops of red gel food coloring into the first bowl.
- Stir well to mix the color throughout all of the frosting.
- Add 4 drops of sky blue gel food coloring in the 2nd bowl of frosting.
- Stir to mix well.
- Add 3 drops of golden yellow gel food coloring in the 3rd bowl.
- Stir to mix the color throughout the frosting.
- Put a large tip in a large pastry bag.
- Scoop the red frosting into the pastry bag on one side of the bag,
- Scoop the sky blue frosting into the pastry bag on another side of the pastry bag.
- Scoop the golden yellow frosting into the remaining side of the pastry bag.
- Squeeze the open end of the pastry bag to push the frosting to the tip.
- Continue to push the frosting until the it comes out of the tip.
- Frost each cupcake
- Carefully place the fondant piece onto the top of the frosting
Recipe by Mom Does Reviews at https://www.momdoesreviews.com/2019/03/03/captain-marvel-cupcakes/
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